California sketches

by: Fitzgerald, O. P. (Oscar Penn), 1829-1911

Publication date: 1881

Topics: Ethnic groups, Law, Religion and ethics

Publisher: Nashville, Tenn., Southern Methodist publishing house

Collection: library_of_congress; americanmethodism; americana; carli_lib

Digitizing sponsor: Sloan Foundation

Contributor: The Library of Congress

Language: English

A Southern Methodist minister, Oscar Penn Fitzgerald (1829-1911) of North Carolina was sent to California as a missionary by his denomination in 1855. He remained for more than twenty years, winning appointment as state superintendent of public education in 1867 despite his pro-Southern position during the Civil War. In the late 1870s, Fitzgerald returned to the East, editing the Nashville Christian Advocate, 1878-1890, and accepting appointment as a Southern Methodist bishop. California sketches: New series (1881) is the second installment of his reminiscences, again focusing on his Southern Methodist ministry in California, 1855-1880. Topics include his pastorate in Sonora, clergy in California, rivalry with Northern Methodists, and the Pacific Methodist Advocate